minister and the right wing extremists to make up an important part of his coalition are still in power. david rothkopf, as always, and happy holidays to you and your family. thank you, david. a lot more coming up. you re watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. [inaudible] > [inaudible hey everybody, good to see you. i m yasmin vossoughian. if you are just joining us, welcome. if you are sticking with us, we are very thankful for that. with the stroke of a pan, the dawn of giving donald trump exactly what he wants refusal to take up an issue that is clearly headed their way. now puts the chances of trying the former president for election interference before the next election in serious jeopardy. meanwhile, trump may face new legal danger from a new tape that have surfaced trying to pressure a group of republican officials in michigan to help him overturn the election. there s lots of speculation about that. obviously the fact that it comes out right after
and academic roxane gay, has most definitely cut through with her books, which include unflinching testimony on the impact of being raped, on fatness and the meaning of feminism. how scary is this level of self exposure? roxane gay, welcome to hardtalk. stephen, thank you for having me. well, it s a great pleasure to have you here. you ve written with extraordinary candour about your own life. i have. ..and it strikes me that writing about it presumably a solitary occupation is one thing but then, speaking about it in public is quite another. it is, it is. over the years, has the speaking about it become easier? it has. i m actually afraid of public speaking, and that s why i m a writer, and i never anticipated in my career that i would be speaking about anything in public. but the more you do something, the more habituated you get, and it does get easier and, you know, i tend to speak in front of very receptive crowds and so, that also makes it a lot easier, and i stand
putin accusing him of war crimes in ukraine. but will the russian president actually be arrested? we ll break down where things go from here. anger boiling over in france. violent clashes between protesters and police as people take to the streets to condemn plans to raise the country s retirement age. plus trump s lawyer ordered to testify. what the ruling means for the investigation into the former u.s. president s handling of classified documents. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. we begin with a historic decision by the international criminal court. for the first time since russia invaded ukraine the icc has issued an arrest warrant for russia s president over alleged war crimes. the court says vladimir putin bears responsibility for his scheme to illegally deport thousands of ukrainian children to russia. the icc has also issued a similar warrant for russia s so-called commissioner for children s rights, who oversees the d
china which was scheduled for this weekend. as lawmakers react to the incident here at home, senate majority leader chuck schumer says the entire senate will receive a classified briefing on china february 15th. charles watson is live on the south carolina coast near where debris from the spy flight rained down. also standing by, congressman ryan zinke, who represents montana where that flight was respondented lingering over a nuclear silo field. first though, lucas tomlin stomp s live at the white house. reporter: moments ago, the u.s. military issued a statement that the u.s. navy has begun recovery operations off the coast of south carolina. they are combing waters about 7 miles wide and 47 feet deep. now, earlier on fox news sunday senator tom cotton says that spy ballooning should have been shot down when it crossed over the aleutian islands which is u.s. air space in alaska. what began as a spy balloon has become a trial balloon testing president biden s strength an
prosecutors to start probing those with access to his laptop and use it to pedal stories to the press. this is the same laptop that hunter left in a delaware repair shop. the same laptop that prompted twitter to block distribution of the new york post scoop on its existence. the same laptop that much of the media once dismissed as russian disinformation. i doubt hunter biden s request for information will go anywhere but he s making himself a bigger story and a bigger media target. i m howard kurtz and this is media gleet buzz. howard: we ll look at what s fueled the media uproar over the chinese spy balloon that spy jets shot down yesterday. it was instantaneous after the washington post had hard hitting faze for hunter biden. it s his laptop, which we ve been telling people for more than two this is the first time hunter biden said, okay, it was my laptop, essentially; right? hunter came out last night and said, daddy, they stole my laptop. he demanded daddy s justice